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Whatsapp, Threema & Co.: Messenger must hand over personal data
A new telecommunications law provides new surveillance powers for security authorities. It also includes data retention.
The new Telecommunications Act (TKG) has it all. On 465 pages, messengers and e-mail are declared to be telecommunications services, thus introducing surveillance powers similar to those for conventional telephones. Data retention and faster network expansion also appear in the bill. This is to be decided on a fast-track basis.
Whereas many of the provisions of the Telecommunications Act previously applied to Internet providers or telephone providers, they will now be extended to so-called over-the-top services such as e-mail providers or messengers like Whatsapp, Signal, Threema, Telegram or Wire. According to the so-called Gmail ruling of the European Court of Justice (ECJ), these are not telecommunications services, and accordingly the surveillance powers of the security authorities do not apply to them.
With the TKG amendment, messengers that collect inventory data such as name, address or an identifier such as phone number, user name or other ID are obliged to store this data and hand it over to security authorities upon request, even if the account has already been deleted.
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A new telecommunications law provides new surveillance powers for security authorities. It also includes data retention.
The new Telecommunications Act (TKG) has it all. On 465 pages, messengers and e-mail are declared to be telecommunications services, thus introducing surveillance powers similar to those for conventional telephones. Data retention and faster network expansion also appear in the bill. This is to be decided on a fast-track basis.
Whereas many of the provisions of the Telecommunications Act previously applied to Internet providers or telephone providers, they will now be extended to so-called over-the-top services such as e-mail providers or messengers like Whatsapp, Signal, Threema, Telegram or Wire. According to the so-called Gmail ruling of the European Court of Justice (ECJ), these are not telecommunications services, and accordingly the surveillance powers of the security authorities do not apply to them.
With the TKG amendment, messengers that collect inventory data such as name, address or an identifier such as phone number, user name or other ID are obliged to store this data and hand it over to security authorities upon request, even if the account has already been deleted.
👉🏼 Source 🇩🇪 👈🏼
https://www.golem.de/news/whatsapp-threema-co-messenger-sollen-bestandsdaten-herausgeben-muessen-2012-152770.html
#whatsapp #threema #telegram #personaldata #surveillance #authorities #messenger #netpolitics #thinkabout
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_DE
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_EN
📡@NoGoolag
📡@BlackBox
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Messenger sollen Bestandsdaten herausgeben müssen
Ein neues Telekommunikationsgesetz sieht neue Überwachungsbefugnisse für Sicherheitsbehörden vor. Auch die Vorratsdatenspeicherung steht darin.